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Personal data Robert VII de BETHUNE 

• He was born in the year 1200 in Béthune, 62119, Pas de Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
• He died on November 12, 1248 in Jaffa, District d, ISRAEL, he was 48 years old.
• He is buried in Arras, 62041, Pas de Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, Saint-Waast.
• A child of Guillaume II Le Roux de BETHUNE and Mathilde de TENREMONDE
• This information was last updated on January 5, 2019.

Household of Robert VII de BETHUNE

He had a relationship with Isabeau de MORIALMES.

Child(ren):

1. Mathilde Mahaut de BETHUNE  1220-1264 

Notes about Robert VII de BETHUNE

#Générale#Avoué d'Arras et de Ganddrost van Saint-Vaast
Notes individuelles
Robert de Béthune VII (c.?1201 – 12 November 1248 in Sardinia) was a French nobleman from the House of Bethune from Artois. He served as a knight and military leader in Flanders and England before inheriting his family territories in France and theLow Countries. He joined the Seventh Crusade, but died en route to the eastern Mediterranean.

He was a younger son of Lord William II of Béthune (d. 1214) and his wife, Mathilda of Dendermonde.

Robert had no hope of a large inheritance, as his elder brother Daniel (d. 1226) would inherit the Lordship of Béthune. He therefore decided to become a knight at the court of Count Ferdinand of Flanders. The House of Bethune was one of the more influential families in Artois, which had been a Flemish fief until Flanders had to cede it to the French heir apparent Louis, the son of Isabella of Hainault. Count Baldwin IX of Flanders had ceded Artois to Hainault in the Treaty of Péronne. However, his son-in-law Ferdinand pursued a policy aiming to recover Artois. This brought him into conflict with the French royal family. The House of Béthune was split by this power struggle: Robert's father and brother were loyal to the French liege lord, while Robert sided with Flanders.

In 1213, Robert accompanied Count Ferdinand into exile in England after King Philip II of France had invaded Flanders. Later that year, he and the Earl of Salisbury led a successful attack on the French fleet in the port of Damme, thereby thwartingan impending invasion of England. The following year, he participated in the decisive Battle of Bouvines (27 July 1214). King Philip II won the battle, and took Count Ferdinand prisoner. Robert was taken prisoner by a French knight, who released him, after Robert promised to pay a ransom.[1] This story was recorded by an anonymous chronicler, who was employed by Robert and who wrote between 1220 and 1223 a chronicle about the French kings entitled Chroniques des rois de France et ducs de Normandie[2]

Daniel of Béthune died childless in 1226 and Robert inherited the family territories around Béthune, Richebourg, Warneton and Dendermonde, as well as the hereditary post of advocatus of Abbey of St. Vaast near Arras. In 1227, Count Ferdinand was released from prison. He paid homage to the French king and gave his hope of recapturing Artois.

Robert apparently came closer to the French crown in the following years. In 1236, he is named as a guarantor of the Treaty of Péronne, which must imply that he now recognized this treaty.

In 1248, Robert decided to join the crusade of King Louis IX of France to Egypt (the Seventh Crusade). During a stopover in Sardinia, en route to Cyprus, he fell ill and died. He was buried in Arras.

Robert was married to Elisabeth of Morialmez. He had a daughter, Matilda (d. 1264). In 1246, she married Guy of Dampierre, who was related to the Counts of Flanders and inherited the county in 1251. Since Robert had no sons, Matilda and Guy also inherited Béthune. Their son, Robert III ceded Béthune to France in 1312.

A junior line of the House of Béthune, descended from Robert's younger brother William, survives to this day as Lords of Meulebeke.

Sources :

Charles Emmanuel Joseph Poplimont: La Belgique héraldique: recueil historique, chronologique, généalogique et biographique complet de toutes les maisons nobles, reconnues de la Belgique, vol. 1, 1863
E. Warlop: The Flemish Nobility before 1300, Kortrijk, 1975-1976
Pierre Bruyelle, Alain Derville: Histoire de Béthune et de Beuvry, 1985
Sources
Naissance, décès: Wikipedia - Internet document -
Union: Wikipedia - Internet document
Notes individuelles
Robert de Béthune
seigneur de Béthune, de Richebourg, de Varneston et de Tenremonde (Robert VII de Béthune)
Avoué de l'abbaye Saint-Vaast d'Arras Né en 1200 Décédé le 12 novembre 1248 - Sardaigne À l'âge de 48 ans Parents
Guillaume, seigneur de Béthune ca 1160-1214 Mahaut de Tenremonde, dame héritière de Tenremonde +1224 Mariages et enfants
Marié avec Isabeau, dame de Morialmé ca 1190 (secondes noces de l'épouse), dont Mathilde ca 1220-1264 Isabeau Sara dite d'Angleterre Sources: - personne: F_L. Jacquier (Miroslav Marek) http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bethune/bethune1.html, F-L. Jacquier (Claude Henri Maigret) forum 2011-04-29 17:41 - mariage: F-L. Jacquier (H&G, 1993 n° 129 p. 395) - famille: F_L. Jacquier (Miroslav Marek) http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bethune/bethune1.html Sources: base Roglo Portrait: blason dessiné par O. de Chavagnac pour l'Armorial des As
Sources
Naissance, union, décès: Base Roglo
Frères et sœurs
Guillaume Béthune (de) ca 1202-1243
Adélaïde Béthune (de) †1253/

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